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Books n‘ Bogs

Long open Night of Libraries on April 4th at the Peatland Library
21/03/2025 Peatland pope Prof. Hans Joosten invites all interested - no, not to the peatland - but to a library where inspiration drips from the walls and thousands of books in all genres and languages are available on one topic only - peatlands. In its new home, the former lecture hall of the “Alte Chemie” in the courtyard of Greifswald's Soldmannstraße 16, the renovation work has been completed. Boxes and boxes of books are currently moving into the listed building and filling the shelves of the barrier-free, high-ceilinged room with two galleries. With a collection of 50,000 publications, the special collection on moors is an important part of the Greifswald Moor Centrum and is of international significance. Statics, financing, contaminated sites - there were and still are many challenges to overcome on the way from the vision of a library to its realization.

On April 4th, the Long Night of Libraries, Hans Joosten will give a guided tour of the 1905 wing of the building in German from 9 p.m. and talk about its history, the extensive decontamination and the new boggy contents.

Afterwards, there will be English samples from “Books n' Bogs”, a project by the collective re-peat earth. International, young and creative, its members are committed to restoring and conserving peatlands and raising public awareness of their importance. For the book project, they documented the relationship between people and bogs around the Irish town of Abbeyleix. They are also driving forward the “Mapping Peatland Justice” project in the Greifswald Peatland Library and are using the occassion to discuss it with visitors. In English and (almost) open end.
Free of charge, but with registration at: bibliothek@greifswaldmoor.de